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Piyyutim have been written in many different genres and subgenres. Most of these are defined by the function that the given poem fulfills in the context of Jewish prayer service; but a few are defined by other criteria, such as content. Yotzer sequence—a series of poems, which adorn the blessings surrounding the morning recitation of the ...
Then the whole Yom Kippur Temple service is described in detail: the preparation of the High Priest during seven days preceding the festival, the appointment of a substitute to meet the emergency of the High Priest's becoming disqualified, the preparation of the holy vessels, the offering of the regular morning sacrifice, the baths and ablutions of the High Priest, his different changes of ...
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šālōš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles ...
While it has Jewish roots, Pentecost is a Christian feast day celebrating the arrival of the Holy Spirit on believers in Jesus Christ. The biblical account, found in Acts 2, tells the account of a ...
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Supplicatory prayer said during Shacharit and Mincha. Not said on Shabbat, Yom Tov and other festive days. Hallel: הלל Psalms 113–118, recited as a prayer of praise and thanksgiving on Jewish holidays. Hallel is said in one of two forms: Full Hallel and Partial Hallel. Shir shel yom: שיר של יום Daily psalm.
First page of Akdamut from the Mahzor of Worms, a 13th-century illuminated manuscript. Akdamut, or Akdamus or Akdamut Milin, or Akdomus Milin (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַקְדָמוּת מִלִּין ʾaqdāmûṯ millîn "In Introduction to the Words," i.e. to the Ten Commandments), is a prominent piyyut ("liturgical poem") written in Aramaic recited annually on the Jewish holiday of ...
Jewish liturgical poems (4 C, 47 P) S. Jewish services (11 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Jewish prayer and ritual texts" The following 83 pages are in this category ...